2008 Annual Management Blog Carnival: Part 1
January 7, 2009
The first half of the 2008 annual management blog carnival posts are online now. The posts highlight some of the best posts on management blogs in the last year. Follow the links to read some of the excellent posts that have been highlighted on the... Read more...
Statistics for Experimenters in Spanish
January 5, 2009
Statistics for Experimenters, second edition, by George E. P. Box, J. Stuart Hunter and William G. Hunter (my father) is now available in Spanish. Read a bit more can find a bit more on the Spanish edition, in Spanish. Estadstica para Investigadores... Read more...
What to Wear to an Interview
January 4, 2009
Response to What to Wear for an IT Job Interview?. Is this just a huge bit stereotypical? Who can blame them for not wanting to bother with their wardrobes? Fashion is fickle. Fashion is expensive. Fashion requires imagination and inspiration, and let’s... Read more...
Cost Cutting is Much Different than Waste Removal
December 31, 2008
Cost Cutting is Much Different than Waste Removal by Jim Womack The very last thing to consider is the one thing managers seem to embrace most readily: cost cutting. This means leaving out steps and features that actually create value from the perspective... Read more...
A Programmer’s View of the Universe
December 29, 2008
A few weeks ago I wrote about integrating information technology and business process management. This post from Steve Yegge is interesting and discusses one reason I find that a good strategy. Programmers, by and large, are good, practical systems... Read more...
Management Blog Carnival: 2008 Overview
December 24, 2008
Over the next 2 weeks several management blogs will be posting their contributions to the management improvement annual blog carnival. Posts will highlight some of the best posts on other management blogs in the last year. The blogs posting contributions... Read more...
Cutting Hours Instead of People
December 23, 2008
When financial and economic realities reach the point that labor costs must be cut I believe a good option to consider is cutting hours (and pay) instead of people. Some people will have extreme hardship if the cut in hours and pay is significant, but... Read more...
Managing Passionate Employees
December 22, 2008
Passion vs. Productive There are actually few organizations that can support passionate employees - even if they say they want them. That’s because the original industrial revolution was designed to support productivity. Productivity means you produce.... Read more...
Management Improvement Carnival #50
December 20, 2008
Corey Ladas is hosting the Management Improvement Carnival #50 on the Lean Software Engineering blog, highlights include: Where did middle managers come from? by Jeffrey Krames: A new anecdote from a conversation with Peter Drucker, which leaves the... Read more...
Looting: Bankruptcy for Profit
December 19, 2008
Looting: The Economic Underworld of Bankruptcy for Profit by George Akerlof, University of California, Berkeley; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Paul Romer, Stanford Graduate School of Business; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).... Read more...
